You be welcome, and I, for one, am happy to help anytime I can.
And don't think you guys don't help me in return either! Sometimes, I learn more in an evening from someone's mistake, than I ever could've learned in 100 years writing my own code. I start down that rabbit hole -- "Why doesn't this work??"... And it seems like it should... So then I start to google or bing or duckduckchicken at a voodoo alter, looking for answers... Someone, somewhere, back in 1902, prophesied about this mysterious error, and so I go down that rabbit hole for 6 hours, expanding my knowledge of the universe. Nothing seems to click though, and solve the problem as it's presented... I read the source. Look at the translated code. Run diagnostics. Check the c-output. Dig through a c manual... Man, this is one impossible error that one of you guys have managed to generate!! I'm loving it!
... And then somebody will post on the forums, "The problem is in Sub foo -- you have a comma outside the quotes on your PRINT statement there, and it's adding the space to your formatting."
And my brain melts... "Waahhh??!!"
And it's actually quite a cathartic rollercoaster ride, once its all over and done with, and I now have learned, "Not all commas are supposed to exist at the end of print statements. Watch for that. Some might be typos..."
Steve <-- the guy who can program the most complex stuff flawlessly and with his eyes closed, but who can't ever find a missing comma, misspelt word, or 1 + 1 = 3 glitch, to save his life. Don't believe it? Watch my mem tutorial where I write up a nice complex 2 or 3d block of memory, convert it into a 1d representation, and then can't count to 10 with my array index. /sigh
And don't think you guys don't help me in return either! Sometimes, I learn more in an evening from someone's mistake, than I ever could've learned in 100 years writing my own code. I start down that rabbit hole -- "Why doesn't this work??"... And it seems like it should... So then I start to google or bing or duckduckchicken at a voodoo alter, looking for answers... Someone, somewhere, back in 1902, prophesied about this mysterious error, and so I go down that rabbit hole for 6 hours, expanding my knowledge of the universe. Nothing seems to click though, and solve the problem as it's presented... I read the source. Look at the translated code. Run diagnostics. Check the c-output. Dig through a c manual... Man, this is one impossible error that one of you guys have managed to generate!! I'm loving it!
... And then somebody will post on the forums, "The problem is in Sub foo -- you have a comma outside the quotes on your PRINT statement there, and it's adding the space to your formatting."
And my brain melts... "Waahhh??!!"
And it's actually quite a cathartic rollercoaster ride, once its all over and done with, and I now have learned, "Not all commas are supposed to exist at the end of print statements. Watch for that. Some might be typos..."
Steve <-- the guy who can program the most complex stuff flawlessly and with his eyes closed, but who can't ever find a missing comma, misspelt word, or 1 + 1 = 3 glitch, to save his life. Don't believe it? Watch my mem tutorial where I write up a nice complex 2 or 3d block of memory, convert it into a 1d representation, and then can't count to 10 with my array index. /sigh